The broker fee, long a bane of New York City renters, just got voted out. The New York City Council passed a bill Wednesday requiring landlords to pay fees for brokers they hire to list and show apartments.

The New York City Council passed a bill Wednesday to have NYC landlords pay for broker fees, instead of tenants.

New York renters would no longer be on the hook for costly broker fees when signing a new apartment lease, under a measure passed by the city council Wednesday.

The lawyers who have been representing Rudy Giuliani are trying to quit his defamation case because of disagreements with him, according to new court filings, as a Friday deadline nears for the former New York City mayor to turn over many of his most valuable possessions to two Georgia election workers to whom he owes nearly $150 million.

It appears that Rudy Giuliani’s attorneys no longer want to represent him in his $148 million defamation judgement he owes two Fulton County election workers. On Wednesday, Kenneth Caruso filed a motion to have him and fellow attorney David Labkowski removed over a “fundamental disagreement” with their client.